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Ari Daniel

How to laugh in the face of calamity: Advice from a Lebanese sweets shop owner

Nassim Haddad greets his customers and life with unflinching cheer. (Ari Daniel for NPR)

When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, Nassim Haddad was running three restaurants. One of them, al-Tannour, was on the road to the airport outside of Beirut. A special oven cooked fresh bread right in the middle of the restaurant.

"The people take the bread hot and they eat with labneh, with hummus," says Haddad. "It's good. It's very, very good."

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